About the Authors

Zachary S. L. Foster

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Thomas J. Sharpton

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Niklaus J. Grünwald

nik.grunwald@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The use of trade, firm, or corporation names in this publication is for the information and convenience of the reader. Such use does not constitute an official endorsement or approval by the United States Department of Agriculture or the Agricultural Research Service of any product or service to the exclusion of others that may be suitable.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZSLF TJS NJG. Data curation: ZSLF. Formal analysis: ZSLF TJS NJG. Funding acquisition: NJG. Investigation: ZSLF NJG. Methodology: ZSLF TJS NJG. Project administration: TJS NJG. Resources: NJG. Software: ZSLF. Supervision: TJS NJG. Validation: ZSLF TJS NJG. Visualization: ZSLF TJS NJG. Writing – original draft: ZSLF TJS NJG. Writing – review & editing: ZSLF TJS NJG.